Abstract:

Malba Barahona is an educational researcher and a language educator with extensive experience in teaching Spanish and English as foreign languages. Her research interests include second language teacher education, second language acquisition, critical applied linguistics, cultural historical activity theory (CHAT), emerging technologies and innovative pedagogies. Malba Barahona holds a PhD from the Australian National University, a Master in Linguistics from the Universidad de Chile and a degree in the teaching of English from Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación (Pedagógico). Malba has been teaching in higher education institutions over the last 20 years in the fields of foreign language learning, second language teacher education, applied linguistics, and cultural historical activity theory.

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